When I entered the Catholic Church some years ago, I recall someone in RCIA saying that the focus on Confession had shifted in recent years. They said that the focus for a long time was about the act ...

“Return: but it is your dad who tells you to return. God is your dad; not a judge, he is your dad: ‘return home, listen, come,’” Pope Francis emphasized. Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Casa Santa ...

To Sarah Reinhard, the sacrament of confession is an important act of self-care, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. "I would say this would probably be the top self-care thing you could do ...

While the global synodal process initiated by Pope Francis arguably has been the most extensive exercise in ecclesial consultation attempted by the church in 2,000 years, reports from around the world ...

(RNS) — Imagine a church where everyone, including the senior pastor, was required to have a person they confessed to. For one, it would help avoid some of the major crises in the failures of ...

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film "I Confess," based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He's innocent, and has even heard the murderer's confession — but cannot clear his own name ...

Church and government leaders in France are at odds over whether priests should be required to report the abuse of minors if they learn about it in the sacrament of confession. Archbishop Eric de ...

In his artful account of American participation in the sacrament of confession, 'For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of ...